Dwarf Planet Pluto

Pluto is in an eccentric orbit which unlike earth this means it is Egg shaped and not going around in a complete circular orbit.

This means that some times depending when you look at Pluto the furthest away Pluto is form the Sun on the longest part of the egg shaped orbit it will be 49 AU form the Sun

An AU = 93,000,000 miles which is the distance from the Earth to the Sun

At the shortest Point it is 29 AU

So the answer to your question is in between 4.4 Billion Kilometers to 7.3 Billion Kilometers Plus or minus the distance that earth could be away from the sun at any one time which is nearly 150 million kilometers away

Or in miles from 2.75 billion miles away to 4.53 billion miles away plus or minus the earths distance from the sun 93,000,000 miles

Pluto has an orbit that is so eccentric that it can fall between Neptune's orbit of the Sun and be closer to the sun about once in several hundred years

Charon was once a candidate for being a solar planet, I believe, but it is now considered a satellite of Pluto.

Pluto has three known moons. The largest, Charon, is proportionally larger, compared to its primary, than any other satellite of a known planet or dwarf planet in the solar system. The other two moons, Nix and Hydra, are much smaller.
-Pluto's Natural Satellites (Wikipedia)
Also, check out 'Timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their moons' on Wikipedia. (That's the title of their article, by the way.)



Sorry I didn't provide links to the wiki articles. I'm doing this anonymously, and I don't feel like figuring out the site for one answer when I'm on someone else's computer. Just copy and paste the titles of the articles if you want to read them.

Solar energy would be weak, but not impossible. Wind energy would be your best source. Pluto may also contain flammable gasses or oils usable for energy, but until we walk on Pluto, we wont know.

They were just dragging their feet once the definition of a planet was solidified. A planet is now considered a nonluminous object, larder than an asteroid or comet, that orbits a star. Whether they were waiting on a comparison of Pluto vs. asteroid measurements...I do not know.

Because 2 years ago the astronomers found out that Pluto is not a planet. It is too small to be a planet.

Some authorities are still rooting for Pluto! They still consider it is a planet, though very small.

It Take's Pluto 243 Earth Day's, To Orbit The Sun?

Pluto is farther away from the sun than Earth, therefore, since it has a longer way to go to completely orbit the Sun, there is no way it can take only 243 days

Pluto's moon Nix is thought to smaller than the other small moon Hydra, but the two are very close in size. There is a large margin of error possible, with the two moons ranging from 50 to 150 km in diameter.

pluto is not big at all and it is also sometimes smaller than moon but it still is little bit big no wonder it is use to be a planet.

Pluto does have some evidence of Ice yes but it's mostly rock I'm afraid with 70 percent of the 'dwarf' planet and 30 percent is Water in Ice form so technically yes and no because it's so cold between about -235 and -210 C according to research the Ice remains there, but in the brighter areas of the planet it contains nitrogen in frozen form. If you compare Pluto to Triton that's what Pluto is like. But for further info, follw the hyperlink - http://www.nineplanets.org/pluto.html

Like you would be like 2 like if you was 13 on Pluto you would be like 2 WOW yah like the gravity thing like helps so much with the wrinkles like you would not even need botox! and like that would awesome.

It would take several years to reach Pluto by spacecraft due to its distance from Earth, which varies depending on the positions of both planets in their orbits. The fastest spacecraft, New Horizons, took about 9.5 years to reach Pluto after its launch in 2006.

Pluto received a new designation in 2006 as a Dwarf Planet, formerly a planet but now listed in the Minor Planet Catalogue. It is also categorized as a Trans-Neptunian Object and sometimes called a Plutoid or Ice Dwarf.

Because of its distance from Earth it is hard to study - but in 2015 a probe should reach it and give more detailed information. At this time it is assumed to be composed of frozen gas like methane and nitrogen, with a thick layer of water ice, and likely have a rocky core.

Charon, the largest moon of Pluto, is about half the size of Earth's moon. It has a diameter of around 751 miles (1,212 kilometers), while Earth's moon has a diameter of about 2,159 miles (3,474 kilometers).

The symbol for Pluto, the dwarf planet, is a capital letter "P" with a stylized representation of the god Pluto's helmet.

The reddish color of Pluto's atmosphere is thought to be due to tholins, which are complex organic molecules formed when ultraviolet light interacts with methane and nitrogen in the atmosphere. The surface of Pluto has a variety of colors, including reddish-brown, white, and grey, which are likely due to the presence of ices such as methane, nitrogen, and carbon monoxide, as well as dark patches of tholins and other organic materials.

Pluto's month, defined as the time it takes for the dwarf planet to complete one orbit around the sun, is about 248 Earth years. This means that it takes that long for Pluto to complete a full cycle of seasons.

Yes, some planets do take longer to rorbit around the sun. It takes earth 365 days, hence a year being 365 days. Saturn, the 6th planet from the sun, takes 10,759 earth days to orbit around the sun.

About 165 thousand light years. A galactic, or cosmic, year, during which our Sun completes one orbit within the Milky Way Galaxy, is said to be about 225 million years. It is thought that since we're about 30,000 light years from the center of our galaxy the orbital speed of our Solar System is approximately 220 kilometers/second. So since there are 7,100,460,000,000,000 seconds in 225,000,000 years, we have a length of orbit of 220 times that. That is 1,562,101,200,000,000,000 kilometers, or 970,644,685,000,000,000 miles. In more reasonable units, that's a distance of 165,117.754 light years.

Pluto has the longest orbit in length as it is further away from the sun than the other planets. If we model the orbit of all the planets as perfect circles, we can see that planets further from the sun give orbits which are larger circles, and larger circle have larger circumferences, which are the longer orbits. Even if the planets orbited at the same speed, Pluto would take longer to orbit as it has further to travel.

Pluto doesn't orbit at the same speed as other planets - it orbits more slowly. This means it takes even longer to orbit the sun. It orbits more slowly as it is further out and the sun exerts less of a gravitational force on Pluto than on the other planets, and it is this gravitational force which causes objects to orbit around the sun. In fact, the sun exerts 1600 times as much force on Earth than on Pluto.

Two of Pluto's nick names are; The small planet and the dwarf planet and some people call it the gas planet as Pluto,s atmosphere is made up of mostly methane (CH4).

Pluto orbits the Sun at a distance of 4.4 to 7.4 billion kilometers (29 to 39 AU). At its closest positions (approximately 8% of its elliptical orbit) it is closer to the Sun than the planet Neptune. This wide spherical expanse of space is called the Kuiper Belt, and contains many objects of asteroidal size (some are mostly frozen gases). (see related question)

The official names of planets and their moons are governed by an organization called the International Astronomical Union (IAU). The IAU adopted or rather continued the convention of naming the planets circling the Sun with the names of Mythological gods of the Roman pantheon (Pluto is the Roman name for the Greek god Hades).

Also ... Pluto (Hades) ruled the outer dark.

Hades ruled the Underworld. He spent most of his time in the Underworld rather than Mount Olympus with his fellow Olympians. Hades was far away from the rest of the gods just as Pluto is far away from the rest of the planets.

Pluto is important because it provides insights into the outer regions of our solar system and helps scientists understand the diversity of objects that exist beyond the eight planets. Studying Pluto can also reveal information about the formation and evolution of our solar system.